The Northern Ireland assembly has voted to devolve policing and criminal justice powers to Belfast. But despite the intervention of George Bush, Hillary Clinton and David Cameron, the Ulster Unionist party refused to back the deal. Henry McDonald, our Ireland correspondent, assesses the implications of the vote, while in Westminster, chief political correspondent Nicholas Watt looks at what it means for Britain's Conservatives.

As plans to make all dogs carry microchips are announced, we hear the view from people walking their dogs on Wandsworth Common.

And ambulance control worker Suzi Brent - whose blog neenaw.com is now a book, Nee Naw: Real Life Dispatches From Ambulance Control - recounts some of her extraordinary experiences as a 999 call-taker.